Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917
Exhibition catalogue issued by the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for its 1917 show of early American paintings, listing works by colonial and Federal-era portraitists for exhibition visitors and collectors. The plates are halftone reproductions of oil portraits, mostly bust-length sitters in dark coats and high white stocks against unmodulated brown grounds, useful for period faces, soft tonal gradients, and vignetted figure-on-ground framing.
